“The feminine, the visible, and the invisible”

… almost as if matter, in a light breath, struggled to leave and imposed its presence instead. The light presences of bodies, perceptible yet invisible, take up space. Transparent and ethereal threads design the curves of female bodies in impalpable shapes.

A will to handle matter, caress it and mold it guides Silvia Beccaria in her exploration of new and unknown roads, leading her to create the perfect warp of the mold of a woman’s face – as light as a memory, or as a dream in which you try to name that face lost in time, of which only the outer shell remains, guilty of wanting to leave a trace of its passage in the world. It is a presence that transforms into an absence and vice versa, as transparent threads become the starting point to embark on a journey that crosses aesthetic sense and touches the peaks of metaphysical signs in the feeling of void and solitude that emerges when you realize you are in an indefinite space, where you perceive other presences that struggle to manifest themselves, perhaps because by now they live in a different and superior reality, where bodies are only a shell you give up for eternal memory. The piece on display is part of an installation created by using a hand loom, confirming once more it is impossible to confine Silvia Beccaria’s stylistic value within sterile boundaries of interpretation, because her choice to use ephemeral everyday materials serves her will to create works in which details are only a pretext – to tell anecdotes, sketch stories and bring back to mind aromas and episodes, in a game of hints and references that strikes every chord of memory.